Darker Pastures

Conflagrations

With the heat and fury of summer growing ever more intense, and wildfires raging from coast to coast, a young girl in the country’s heart gets a glimpse of what lives wit

Boys

Tagline: In the spring and summer of 1952, the sun shines brightly for a young farm boy – but the shadows yawn dark and deep. ***Content Warning: This episode deals with

Inertia

An isolated and bereaved man discovers what so many of us do in time: that middle age steals over us far sooner than expected, and that so too can life’s subtler crueltie

Greenhorns

In the spring of 1904, a young man arrives on a ranch in Wyoming, pursuing a singular aberrant desire. What follows is one of the strangest annals in the closure of the O

Blue

In a lonely saloon on the 1888 western Kansas prairie, a man recounts an incredible tale from his childhood – one which has no clear beginning, and no definite end. ***C

Little Fears

A seemingly minor accident on a nighttime country road in March of 1921 marks the beginning of a series of events that will forever change the lives of the Grossman famil

Remembrance

On Valentine’s Day of 1975, old wounds are reopened and chilled hearts beat again.  You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank y

Vicious Circles

In response to an unforgivable transgression, two brothers plan the inconceivable. But no plan survives contact with reality. ***Content Warning: This episode obliquely

Crypsis

An aging cattleman struggles with the usual hardships of winter... and with one entirely new. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the sho

Excavations

The son of a Texas ranching dynasty returns from the battlefields of 1918 France to develop newly discovered oil wells on his inheritance, and discovers that his home is

Undersong

Few could ever hope to understand the events that transpired in the autumn of 1888 on the Černik homestead, nestled in the gently rolling Bohemian Alps of southern Nebras

Guardian

An elderly couple finds their new neighbor troublesome and strange, but they could never guess what dark secrets lie in wait so near to their home. ***Content Warning: T

Homogene

In the heart of the country, a traveling couple find themselves encountering a persistent shadow of the past – one that just might follow them home. ***Content Warning:

Leavings

Returning home to deal with her estranged father's estate, a young woman discovers a strange survival. ***Content Warning: This episode deals with themes of parenta

Cold Ashes

A tragic 1984 fire continues to haunt one of the survivors in a manner most unnatural. ***Content Warning: Contains repeated and descriptive references to deadly house f

Carrion Wind

In the late 1870s, three souls will discover that the prairie winds sometimes carry dark and wicked things. ***Content Warning: Contains frank depictions of genocide aga

Immortalis

One cold night in the spring of 1963, the disparate threads of a darkly arcane narrative become interwoven upon the lonely plains of North Dakota. ***Content warning: Ep

Lovelorn

A lonely middle-aged woman tries to find love where she has never dared to look before. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Tha

January Smiles

Home for the holidays and for a break from her troubled life, a young woman rediscovers an old passion... and is discovered in turn. ***Content Warning: Episode deals wi

Headspace

A person living on the margins of a tiny rural community is witness to increasingly disturbing developments in their neighbors, and their loved ones. ***Content warning: